Yes, we won.
The war remains.
Yet and until the Old Media is pounded into sand, we must stay the course.
March on, Fellow Freepers.
Fight the Good Fight.
Posted on 12/03/2004 8:00:39 PM PST by Justaham
Published: November 29, 2004 2:45 PM ET
NEW YORK Feeling a bit lost lately? You should, at least according to a compendium posted today at Jay Rosen’s popular PressThink Web log, because the biggest loser on Election Day was not John Kerry but the mainstream media.
Daniel Henninger, writing in The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal, put it this way: "It is often said that the only sure winner in American politics is the media. Amid GOP victory parties or the ruined dreams of the Kerry candidacy, the one constant is that the media marches on. Maybe not this time. Big Media lost big."
"I was interested in figuring out why so many people were saying it and surveying the range of reasons they might have had," explained Rosen, a press critic, author, and chairman of the New York University journalism program. "It's a little experiment in unbiased media criticism, because it's simply presenting what these writers said. I could have commented on each one -- because I'm a press critic, I have a lot to say -- but I thought it might be more interesting just to let them speak."
And speak they did. From an editorial in Investor's Business Daily to an Associated Press article, Rosen provided excerpts and links to "the same idea," he said, "served 21 ways: 'Media, you lost big.'"
Most of the writers Rosen quoted expressed the opinion that liberal bias in the press became more apparent than ever during the election, even taking the stance that the media was actively trying to get Kerry elected.
The Nov. 2 Investor's Business Daily editorial stated, "By press time last night, we weren't sure who would be the winner of the 2004 presidential contest. But we were certain of one big loser: the media. We've watched in slack-jawed amazement over recent weeks as the big media, fearful of another four years for President Bush, have basically become an unpaid adjunct to the Kerry campaign."
On Nov. 3, Glenn Reynolds posted an entry in his blog, Instapundit, titled, "Bitter, Angry Losers." He went on to say, "No, not the Democrats, but the real losers in this election -- the Old Media, still angry that they couldn't deliver their fifteen percent."
Peggy Noonan on Nov. 4, also in Opinion Journal, went wild over the whole idea. After affirming that “the biggest loser was the mainstream media,” she added that conservative bloggers had slain the dragon: “It was to me a great historical development in the history of politics in America. It was Agincourt. It was the yeomen of King Harry taking down the French aristocracy with new technology and rough guts. God bless the pajama-clad yeomen of America.”
Vincent Fiore wrote on Nov. 7 about "Winners and Losers of Election 2004" at the ChronWatch site: "Loser: The Old Media. ... Staunchly opposed to Bush throughout his first term, the prospect of a second four years in office exposed the deep-seated bias among the old media and forever revealed themselves to the public at large."
On Nov. 15, Michael Barone wrote on townhall.com, "It was a bad election for old media. ... It no longer has the kind of monopoly control over political news that it enjoyed a quarter-century ago. And its efforts to help John Kerry proved counterproductive."
Rosen told E&P that he collected and posted the links because he found the claims fascinating. "I just think it's worth reflecting on, that's all," he explained. "Half my motivation was, I'm interested in what other people make of the same stuff."
In drawing his own conclusions from the material he found, Rosen said, "I think the particular discourse of media bias is one that has become dysfunctional. I've said at my Web log that the more you believe it, the dumber you get."
John Kerry was a big loser before Nov 2.
Oh I love this article!
I don't know about that. I'm not exactly sure just how much the media managed to deliver to Kerry, whether his showing was the peak end of that "15%" or if the media did indeed fail to deliver the full 15% which might have put him over the top. But I think it's safe to say that if the media hadn't been trumpeting only the bad things about the war and the economy, hadn't helped to spread the draft lie and flu vaccine "crisis," hadn't had 60%+ negative coverage of Bush in general, Kerry would have lost by more.
We have won a major victory over socialism here - "We the people" are back in power.
LOL!!!!!
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Yes, we won.
The war remains.
Yet and until the Old Media is pounded into sand, we must stay the course.
March on, Fellow Freepers.
Fight the Good Fight.
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John Kerry has always been a big loser all his life.
Speaking for the record, I have never posted to Free Republic in my pajamas.
BTTT
Finally, an old media paper folds......
...more to follow.
The media delivered the large population centers for Kerry. That's all. Those people would have voted for him whether he was a used condom missing a bananna or what:)
Those among us who pray will simply continue to do so.
This is minor. Until the entire media accounts for the bastardizing of America the thing is not complete.
Spielburg once referred to film as an awesome weapon. He knows how to use the weapon (against the Americans he considers enemies).
If Christian Americans wake up and begin to obey and pray they will find that their Captain of the Hosts has more weapons and more lethal to take out the canker placed by the haters.
Good news ping. Also, read the article in reply #6, if you haven't read that news.
You haven't? You are probably the only one who hasn't!
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Maybe pajama bottoms, or less, usually fully clothed though.
Power to the Pajama People!
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